Z-Mint Ripple™ High-Top · 4/6 checks · Reference only — buy controls inert
Board art present
Primary plate resolves.
Seven views
7/7 view slots resolve · 1 real photograph(s), rest derived from the plate sheet.
Bogolan signature
Placements: signature band.
Colourways
4 colourway(s) registered.
Owner marked art final
Awaiting owner sign-off — reference only.
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House · Z-Vibe Footwear
Z-Mint Ripple™ High-Top — board 21 — a mint leather and ivory high-top on a rippled wood-grain midsole, with a Bogolan quarter panel, gold side zip, gold Z badge and patterned heritage laces. The board shows every approved angle with the house colourway range.
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Visual experience—color and fit may vary.
Seven views
Z-Motion™ film slot
No film cut for Z-Mint Ripple™ High-Top yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Z-Grip™ High-Top Cutunit ZG-1939
Cut for this style alone — no other shoe in the house carries this sole.
Reference specification for design review — not a manufacturing document.
Z-Mint Ripple™ High-Top — board 21 — a mint leather and ivory high-top on a rippled wood-grain midsole, with a Bogolan quarter panel, gold side zip, gold Z badge and patterned heritage laces. The board shows every approved angle with the house colourway range.
Made up in Premium leather and soft suede uppers with technical knit panels, woven Bogolanfini collar tiles, heel counters and heritage laces, waterproof functional zippers with Z-pull hardware and diamond Z badges, sculpted platform midsoles and engineered traction outsoles.
Registered in 4 colourways: Z-Mint Ripple, Z-Blush Ripple, Z-Lilac Ripple, Z-Onyx Ripple.
Sized EU 39–EU 46 across the run.
Filed under Z-Vibe Footwear · Horizon Sneaker Atelier™ as Women suits, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Footwear line.
Culture Moves Forward.
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4 colourways
SKU ZV-Z-HORIZON-SNEAKER-ATELIER-Z-MINT-RIPPLE-HIGH-TOP
Mudcloth in terracotta & black — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Flat woven mudcloth laces with gold Z aglets.
Story behind the design
Kere mudcloth in terracotta & black, worked into the signature band.
terracotta & black
ZB-KERE-TER-530
Bogolanfini begins as cotton mudcloth backed with a fine leather skiver so it can take a lace and a lasting pull. It is dyed with a wolo bark tannin with iron-rich mud drawn from the Niger banks — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away. On this piece the mudcloth meets premium leather and soft suede uppers with technical knit panels.
The tape carries tight lattice with hand-dotted corners. In the Bamana reading, Kere is the fence weave — protection of what has been built. Z-Vibe keeps the motif at heritage scale rather than shrinking it into a logo pattern, so the hand of the maker stays legible on the finished shoe.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: signature band. These are the lines the eye already follows on this silhouette, so the cloth reads as structure — an edge, a facing, a seam — and holds its meaning at three metres and at arm's length alike.
Each length is block-matched panel to panel — the atelier discards any length where the repeat cannot be aligned. Tape width and motif repeat are cut to the size band, so a petite run and an extended run carry the same proportion rather than the same measurement.
African heritage, global luxury, future design: the mudcloth is set against European finishing and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark. Nothing is erased on either side — the meeting is the design. Different Roots. One Human Story.
Care · Spot-clean the mudcloth with cool water and a soft cloth. Dry-clean the body of the piece; the tape is colour-set but not bleach-safe.
Each step below reflects work that actually exists for this piece. Refinement is a design process — it does not imply the piece is production-released.
Owner-approved design board intakeComplete
The signed design board was registered as the source of truth; silhouette, Bogolan placement and hardware were locked from it.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ High-Top Cut (ZG-3218) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, woven-cord relief echoing a Bogolan warp, squared architectural last with a chiselled toe box, stack 40 mm heel / 26 mm forefoot, 14 mm drop, laced in narrow Bogolan ribbon lace with a hand-knotted stopper, diamond Z at the lateral wall, Z-VIBE at the medial wall. Tread, last and stack height were made unique to the shoe rather than shared across the register.
Bogolan signature verificationComplete
Mudcloth was confirmed as a construction detail (laces, panel, tongue or heel band) and not surface print, and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark was placed.
Z-Studio 4K refinement passComplete
Studio refinement rebuilt the shoe at 4K: cleaner last geometry, corrected proportions and true material rendering on the released angles.
Seven-view studio captureIn progress
1 of 7 angles are distinct photographs; 02 Left, 03 Right, 04 Back, 05 Interior, 06 Inner tags, 07 Fabric detail still read the design board.
Cut in Premium leather and soft suede uppers with technical knit panels with woven Bogolanfini collar tiles, heel counters and heritage laces, waterproof functional zippers with Z-pull hardware and diamond Z badges, sculpted platform midsoles and engineered traction outsoles. Curve-friendly darted tailoring, modest coverage, clean shoulder line.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 signature band \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z zipper pull at the Z zip pull at the heel counter and a micro-Z at the tongue, finished under Global Heritage Fusion\u2122: African heritage in dialogue with global tailoring and future design.
Victory in the details.
Bogolan SignatureIn development
Reference study · not yet for sale
This piece is documented from an atelier design board. It is shown for reference only while the house completes its photography, sizing and release. Purchase, pricing and availability appear here once the owner approves the finished piece.
Readiness · 1 of 8 complete
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